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LILLE: Dominique Strauss-Kahn has testified to having orgies while he was managing the world financial crisis, to being "rough" with his sexual "conquests," and to needing sex with exceptional frequency. But no obvious evidence has emerged during a prostitution trial in northern France that Strauss-Kahn did anything illegal. As the trial enters its third and final week, it is looking increasingly likely that the onetime presidential contender will walk away with a clean criminal record.

WASHINGTON: A former UBS AG banker who helped US authorities prosecute the Swiss bank in a tax fraud case has asked for permission to travel to France to comply with a subpoena in another investigation of the company, according a court document. Bradley Birkenfeld, who received more than $100 million for being a whistleblower but also served 30 months in prison in the US case, has been subpoenaed to take part in the French case later this month, according to a motion his lawyer filed in the US District Court of Southern Florida . Birkenfeld, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiring to defraud the United States, remains on supervised release from prison.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the arrest of activist Teesta Setalvad and husband Javed Anand till Feb 19, after a half-hourlong hearing during which advocate and Congress leader Kapil Sibal claimed that the activist couple were being targeted by the ruling BJP for their advocacy on behalf if the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots. The acrimony spilled over when former ASG Indira Jaising, sitting in the audience and watching proceedings alongside the likes of lawyers Prashant Bhushan and TR Andhyarujina, referred to a "Rs 10-lakh suit" when the state accused Teesta of using NGO funds for buying "branded clothes" and "shoes".

MOSCOW: Russia has not agreed to free a Ukrainian military pilot , Nadia Savchenko, who was detained in June and is on her 63rd day of a hunger strike, a Kremlin spokesman said Friday. While the peace deal signed in Minsk on Thursday calls for both sides to exchange all hostages and those "unlawfully detained", President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti that Savchenko's case would have to be decided in court. "It goes without saying the Ukrainian side brought it up, but the president (Putin)

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has sought four weeks time to respond to a notice of the Central Information Commission asking reasons for not complying with its verdict bringing political parties under the Right to Information Act. Citing Delhi elections, Gandhi said despite best efforts, she could not prepare the reply to the present complaint within the timeframe. In her submission filed through her lawyer, Gandhi said she was in the process of seeking legal advice and preparing appropriate response to be filed before the Commission which is expected to be ready within four weeks.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday refused to impose a blanket stay on proceedings pending in the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against real estate company DLF. The demand had been made by the company through lawyer CA Sundaram citing the multi-crore penalties being imposed on it by the regulator. In August 2011, CCI had levied a Rs 630 crore penalty on the company for using its dominant position in the market to engage in unfair trade practices such as making consumers sign inequitable agreements.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Punjab province government has shortlisted 50 persons - currently facing trial in courts under the controversial blasphemy law - to speedily decide their fate as it believes they have been 'victimised'. The Punjab prosecution department in association with the home and police departments shortlisted 50 cases from 262 cases in different courts of the province since 2010. The suspects are languishing in jails and are not being convicted because of lack of evidence, poor evidence , and non-availability of their counsel, the Dawn reported.

MATHURA: Pressing demand for a separate bench of the Allahabad High Court in western UP, the city lawyers today disrupted the rail traffic between Mathura Junction and Cantonment for a brief period, police said. Lawyers blocked the Achanera-Kasganj passenger train coming from Mathura at noon near Murga crossing for over half an hour, even as rail traffic between Mathura Junction and Cantonment was disrupted, Deputy SP Ajay Pal Sharma said. Secretary of Bar Association Mathura Pradeep Sharma said the lawyers are agitating to press their demand of establishment of bench of Allahabad High Court in Western UP. Considering the passenger's problem, the blockade was lifted after 30 minutes, he said.

A US jury on Tuesday ordered Toyota Motor Corp to pay nearly $11 million after finding that an accelerator defect in a 1996 Camry was at fault for a 2006 fatal car crash in Minnesota. Following a three-week trial, jurors in Minnesota federal court deliberated for four days before finding Toyota 60 per cent liable for the crash, according to plaintiffs' lawyers. Koua Fong Lee, the Camry's driver, was found 40 per cent responsible, according to lawyers. The plaintiffs said that the crash was caused by a defect in the Camry's accelerator that caused it to become stuck, and the brakes failed to work.

NEW DELHI: Lawyers with an active practice should not be nominated to the proposed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) that will select judges to avoid conflict of interest, said a top legal luminary who didn't want to be named, reflecting a view that's said to be gaining currency among members of the judiciary. The 'collegium' system of selection, presided over by the Supreme Court, is being replaced by the six-member NJAC, which will see the executive having a greater say in the process.